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It has been three years since Roger Daltrey almost died of viral meningitis. “It’s an evil disease. It was very touch and go for a few days. I didn’t think I’d make it,” he says. You would never know from the way the 74-year-old has just burst into his management offices in Camden, having run up six flights of stairs. But in his hospital bed, in 2015, he says his life flashed before him.

“It was literally like falling off a cliff in my mind. I went through everything: born in a V1 raid, slung out of school, working in a factory, to all of the things I’ve done that I could have never imagined as a boy. It’s been an extraordinary life.”